What kind of Gikuyu are you? This question has been circling around and inside me for many years.
Binyavanga Wainaina: two years ago, when we heard that Jacob Zuma was running for president, we were upset.
A successful brand management strategy is one that makes people pay remarkably high prices for products that are inherently cheap to make.
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/ 18 February 2009
Binyavanga Wainaina: Nowhere on the planet are there countries as oddly shaped as in Africa.
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/ 22 January 2009
To belong to a civilisation is to take all your nation’s bodies and ready them for the open market.
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/ 17 December 2008
Information about Obama’s grandfather could begin a strange game
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/ 3 December 2008
So many writers are making money writing stupid self-help books.
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/ 20 November 2008
Binyavanga Wainaina: To win an election, our political classes released the beast. This beast is exactly as bestial as something out of Revelations.
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/ 23 October 2008
Did Ngugi wa Thiong’o read Harold Robbins? Did he know what kind of mind-blowing sex you could have in LA with cocaine rubbed on your genitals?
This whole year a new virus has been spreading to countries where elections are taking place. It is called "Doing a Kibaki".